Bacon Explosion
The Superbowl is quite the challenge. Particularly for people who are about a month into resolutions to take better care of their bodies. And it's made all that much worse when the New York Times features a recipe for something called Bacon Explosion on the front page a couple days beforehand.
Well, it's been more than a week since the Superbowl, and I now feel that enough time has passed to confront what was a woven blanket of bacon smothered in barbecue rub and sauce, covered in a layer of sausage and sprinkled with fried bacon rolled up into a loaf slathered with more rub and sauce and served in pinwheel slices.
Here's a video of my sister making one "from weaving to eating":
I hardly had it in me to eat my slice after all the snacking that took place beforehand: a vegetable board (rectangle pizza), guacamole, chicken fingers, wait, was that it? how is that possible?
anyway, the bacon explosion was not nearly as crispy as i had imagined it -- something i imagine would be at least somewhat remedied by sticking it on a grill instead of an oven. also, it took for-e-ver. something like 3 hours. hmmm.
in the video, i think you can hear my mom suggesting the addition of something healthy like spinach to the middle next time...
that might make it better, but certainly not baconier. fail.
now my goal is to transform this post into something i can stick on my work blog on digital business trends...hmmm...
-dr-
Well, it's been more than a week since the Superbowl, and I now feel that enough time has passed to confront what was a woven blanket of bacon smothered in barbecue rub and sauce, covered in a layer of sausage and sprinkled with fried bacon rolled up into a loaf slathered with more rub and sauce and served in pinwheel slices.
Here's a video of my sister making one "from weaving to eating":
I hardly had it in me to eat my slice after all the snacking that took place beforehand: a vegetable board (rectangle pizza), guacamole, chicken fingers, wait, was that it? how is that possible?
anyway, the bacon explosion was not nearly as crispy as i had imagined it -- something i imagine would be at least somewhat remedied by sticking it on a grill instead of an oven. also, it took for-e-ver. something like 3 hours. hmmm.
in the video, i think you can hear my mom suggesting the addition of something healthy like spinach to the middle next time...
that might make it better, but certainly not baconier. fail.
now my goal is to transform this post into something i can stick on my work blog on digital business trends...hmmm...
-dr-
Labels: bacon explosion, superbowl
posted by mrdarius at
Monday, February 09, 2009
9 Comments:
Sounds like your experience wasn't as good as my awesome one. When I found out that my family had polished off the end of the left overs without me I was devastated, I thought they were playing a joke on me, that's how much I loved it.
Are you talking about baking time? If it took three hours your oven wasn't nearly hot enough--mine was done in 45 minutes at 375 degrees. Possibly I had less than a pound of bacon, but still. And you may not have read the Oven Recipe that was posted later on the same site, but there was a recommendation for crunch bacon lovers to broil it once it done to sear the outside. And as for prep time, it didn't take me more than 30 minutes including making the bacon rub from scratch.
hmmm...i hadn't noticed the oven recipe. then again, i didn't have plans to eat bacon explosion on the Superbowl. I just arrived at the point when the video starts, so not much say in the whole process.
i hadn't seen your updates on the BYEBBQQBBEQBEQB post, but it almost sounds like you were crying when you ate it (even though you said laughing).
after watching your video on youtube i clicked on another one that looks like it would satisfy both your craving for crispier bacon and your mother's craving vegetables inside...it looks awesome. but i think i prefer it as a meat only deal. well, maybe onions.
do you have a link to the other one?
oh shit i thought i included it! i totally copied it, i must have gotten distracted and didn't paste it. obviously that was the whole point of the comment. here it is. what a friggin goof i am.
oops i forgot again, here it is.
oops this time i'll get it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1IiUAtoNBk
Spinach. Heh.
I said the recipe to my sister so she could give it to her boyfriend who is a chef.
Now who is going to have the best bacon explosion of the lot?just imagine a bacon explosion being slow cooked in a 70-year-old pizza oven.
arai: yum -- i like the shredded cheese addition.
rachel: how'd the pizza bacon explosion come out?
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